In the Eucharist this Sunday, Monsignor Silvio Báez, auxiliary bishop of Managua, criticized the citizens who bet on a “culture of verbal cannibalism” and stressed that these actions lead to “destroying each other.”
We live in a culture of verbal cannibalism. We eat others with gossip. The preferred menu for many people is to eat others with gossip or hurtful words. Today we have refined ourselves more, creating false or anonymous profiles on social networks, to eat others, denigrating, offending and slandering them. How current is today what Saint Paul said to the Galatians: “If you bite and devour each other, be careful, because you will end up destroying each other,” the hierarch stressed on the solemnity of this June 11.
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At the Eucharist celebrated today at Santa Agatha Church in Miami; The priest questioned those who rely on false profiles or news that lacks credibility to attack and divide the opposition or subtracting the values of the Church and its clergy.
This week, Bishop Báez spoke on his social networks repudiating a publication made by the Religión Digital media outlet in which he branded the Catholic Church as «somocista». Likewise, he accuses them of trafficking money and legal goods, a statement that the priest dismissed as lies. «to defend a criminal dictatorship», an action that he assures not only offends the religious but also the people of Nicaragua. He also regretted that spaces were provided to misinform.
On the solemnity of the body and blood of Christ, supported by the book of Deuteronomy, he said that the “Eucharist will give us the strength to live as brothers and also the lucidity to understand that our enemies are not those who think differently from us, but the power structures that oppress us all equally.”
With this message, the religious called to unite under the line of focusing criticism against the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo and not directing actions to destroy the groups that are called opposition, despite having differences on some points, especially ; in reference to those who are outlined as the leaders-
The hierarch asked to unite to rebuild the social fabric broken by the hatred and confrontation of « sterile controversies». Hate and confrontation must be on one side, she mentioned. Likewise, he stressed that the population should not tolerate injustice or accept impunity.
